
Over the course of its runtime, you’ll be put through just about every trope and mechanical rigamarole known to the genre, only this time you’ll have an incessant voice in your ear making quips about how funny it all is. Personally, I found it about as suffocating an experience as being ejected out of an airlock, and nowhere near as brisk. One part survival-sim set in the far reaches of unforgiving space, one part fourth-wall shattering parody of the very genre it belongs to, Breathedge will live or die based on your tolerance for its comedy. I’d argue it’s not for most, come to think of it. So yeah, sorry to burst your bubble, but a 68/100 Metacritic score feels too high for this game.Breathedge isn’t for everyone. The only thing I can recommend is the music, which is quite dramatic and lovely and really wasted on such a lackluster release. It’s not fun, it’s not engaging, it looks terrible. I would have to change the language or play it muted I think.Īfter less than half an hour, my mind was good and made up.

The game tries to be funny (I think?) but fails miserably. Truly awful writing, bad line delivery (though this is likely more about the writing than the actors) and it’s pretty constant.

Hell, if I didn’t know what this was and just saw some video I might peg it as a PS3 game, and not even one of the better-looking ones. For a game with such demanding specs that’s only releasing on PC and PS5, the graphics are shockingly last-gen. The open-world is bland and boring and it looks ugly.
